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Reflections on Chomsky Alexander L. George (Amherst College)

Reflections on Chomsky By Alexander L. George (Amherst College)

Reflections on Chomsky by Alexander L. George (Amherst College)


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A collection of philosophical essays in honour of Noam Chomsky's 60th birthday, designed to reflect the breadth of Chomsky's philosophical and linguistic thought. Among topics discussed are the nature of semantic theory, the modular organization of the mind and logical form.

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Reflections on Chomsky by Alexander L. George (Amherst College)

Philosophical essays to celebrate Chomsky's contributions

This collection of writings was compiled to honor the leading linguist Noam Chomsky. Reflections on Chomsky celebrates the linguist's contributions to the study of language, beginning in the 1950s. Essay contributors to the volume include: Sylvain Bromberger, Tyler Burge, Martin Davies, Michael Dummett, Jerry Fodor, James Higginbotham, Norbert Hornstein, Hilary Putnam and Crispin Wright. The writings examine the factuality of linguistics, the psychological reality of grammar, the nature of a semantic theory, the proper object of linguistic inquiry, and other topics.

Table of Contents

Why should the mind be modular?, Jerry A. Fodor; meaning and the mental - the problem of semantics after Chomsky, Norbert Hornstein; logical form and linguistic theory, Jaako Hintikka; types and tokens in linguistics, Sylvian Bromberger; how not to become so confused about linguistics, Alexander George; when is a grammar psychologically real?, Christopher Peacocke; tacit knowledge and subdoxastic states, Martin Davies; knowledge of reference, James Higginbotham; wherein is language social?, Tyler Burge; language and communication, Michael Dummett; model theory and the Factuality of Semantics, Hilary Putnam; Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations and the central project of theoretical linguistics, Crispin Wright.

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GOR005661457
9780631179191
0631179194
Reflections on Chomsky by Alexander L. George (Amherst College)
Used - Very Good
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd
19901206
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